Wildfires in Colorado burn dozens of homes and structures, threaten hundreds more

Associated Press

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — A wildfire in Colorado’s heavily populated Front Range region has burned about two dozen homes and outbuildings. Authorities said Thursday that another wildfire on the edge of metro Denver had crept within a quarter-mile of evacuated homes. Planes and helicopters were dropping water on the flames as more firefighters arrived. Officials say they’re hopeful to save nearly 600 threatened residences. Sweltering temperatures sidelined some firefighters with heat exhaustion. Almost 100 large fires are burning across the West. The largest has destroyed more than 400 houses and other structures in Northern California.